Speech recognition system with interactive spelling function

An interactive speech recognition system for interactively interpreting a spoken phrase, the system comprising:

• one or more processors, and at least one memory in communication with the one or more processors, the at least one memory being configured for storing information and program instructions usable by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one memory stores:
• a phrase interpretation module including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• a) attempt to interpret an individual term of the spoken phrase;
• b) if an interpretation of the term was reached, store in the at least one memory the interpretation of the term and a location of the term in the spoken phrase;
• c) if an interpretation of the term was not reached, store in the at least one memory an indication that the term is uninterpreted and a location of the uninterpreted term in the spoken phrase;
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• repeat steps (a)-(c) for each individual term in the spoken phrase;
• a repeat term module including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to, if an interpretation of a term was not reached in the phrase interpretation module, estimate if the term is the same as a term which was previously accurately interpreted;
• a character interpretation module including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to, if the term is not estimated in the repeat term module to be the same as a term which was previously accurately interpreted, attempt to interpret a character of the term from a spoken spelling of the term provided by the user;
• a repeat character module including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, if an interpretation of the character of the term was not reached in the character interpretation module and using the spoken spelling of the term provided by the user, cause the one or more processors to estimate if the character of the term is the same as a character which was previously accurately interpreted;
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• an interactive spelling module including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to attempt to, if the character of the term is not estimated in the repeat character module to be the same as a character which was previously accurately interpreted, identify the character of the term by enabling a user to interactively select the character of the term from a plurality of characters.